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    Brother Carl

    Susan Sontag 1971 b/w 96min
    This English-language film was made in Sweden by American essayist Susan Sontag and includes a French and Swedish cast. There is a similar confusion in the storyline. Four artistic adults (two men and two women) have gone to an island at the same time. They are people who have caused one another considerable pain in the past, and they appear to be prepared to do so again here. One woman, an actress, commits suicide when she is not able to seduce a (mall ballet dancer whom she had traumatized before. The dancer and the (male) theater director may or may not be having an affair. The dancer tries to
    have sex with an underage autistic girl. The mother of the girl copes with all this, and more.

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    Susan Sontag

    Susan Sontag is best known as a prominent philosopher, essayist, and novelist, but she also made a few films. These films embraced the concept of Modernism, and reflected her thoughts on the artistic forms of emotions, spirituality, and aesthetics and the ways in which they relate to modern society as a whole.

    Susan Sontag

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